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This week in history 3/23/17

Eric Cravey
Posted 3/22/17

5 years ago, 2012A coalition of Clay County business owners began a petition drive to allow voters a chance to decide on expanding Sunday liquor sales.The Town of Orange Park Council voted to abolish …

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This week in history 3/23/17


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5 years ago, 2012
A coalition of Clay County business owners began a petition drive to allow voters a chance to decide on expanding Sunday liquor sales.

The Town of Orange Park Council voted to abolish its sanitation department and outsourced solid waste pickup to Advanced Disposal.

Green Cove Springs City Council passed an internet café ordinance requiring the online gaming houses to be 1,000 feet away from churches, schools, childcare centers or military installations and 5,000 feet away from each other.

10 years ago, 2007
The Clay County School Board voted to cease paying $3,000 a month in lobbyist fees to former Florida House Speaker John Thrasher who had represented the board since November 2003.

More than $4,000 in copper wire and tools were reported stolen from the construction site of Christ’s Church at 5000 U.S. Highway 17 South on Fleming Island.

The Allegro of Fleming Island announced it was adding a two-story facility called the Accolade, at a cost of $12 million that would focus on seniors who needed in-depth memory care services.

20 years ago, 1997
Sheriff Scott Lancaster eliminated for mid-level management positions, reassigned five mid-level supervisors, added two new divisions and created the Public Integrity Unit citing the need to run as efficiently as possible.

The Clay County Sheriff’s Office charged Robert Claude Myers with burglary after he was found crouched inside the bathtub with yellow socks on his hands in a home on Ruth Knight Road in Middleburg.

Fire rescue departments from Clay County, Green Cove Springs and the Town of Orange Park took part in joint training exercises in Penney Farms by razing three abandoned buildings.

30 years ago, 1987
The Jacksonville Medical Examiner’s Office identified the bodies of two men pulled from the St. Johns River who had been missing after a boating accident. James Coleman, 19, and his brother David Coleman, 18, were identified using dental and fingerprint records.

Johnny Frank Burke, 18, and Holy Roosevelt Knotts, 52, were charged with homicide in what police called a “murder for hire” scheme in the death of Walter Leroy Armington, 33 of Green Cove Springs.

The Clay County Board of Adjustment voted that the animals kept at the Florida Reptile Ranch in Middleburg were not livestock after neighbors complained about the ranch harboring jaguars, leopards and lions.

40 years ago, 1977
A Board of County Commissioners sub-committee recommended hiring Richard Walker Construction for $384,699 to construct the Clay County Agricultural Complex using $356,000 from an Economic Development Administration grant and $60,000 from the county.

The Clay County Education Association teachers’ union voted to accept a new contract with the school district giving them a 3.9 percent pay hike despite asking for a 6.5 percent raise.

The Clay County Board of Commissioners voted to ask St. Johns, Putnam, Flagler, Duval and Nassau Counties to join with them in their request that the state ban shrimp trawling in the St. Johns River.